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...Introduction: Among the notable books of later times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all time--must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism and feudal...

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...u by Jean Jacques Rousseau THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 books) Privately Printed for the Members of the Aldus Society London, 1903 ... ...u by Jean Jacques Rousseau THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 books) Privately Printed for the Members of the Aldus Society London, 1903 ... ...rs of the Aldus Society London, 1903 BOOK I INTRODUCTION Among the notable books of later times-we may say, with- out exaggeration, of all time—must b... ... Therese, and devoted his time to herborising and indit- ing the first six books of his Confessions. Soon, however, his old hallucinations acquired st... ...k was more vexa- tious than ever; he even became a wit, telling me, with a satirical sneer, that I should unquestionably make my way among the ladies.... ...or salt, and announced a turn for satire; it is, notwithstanding, the only satirical writing that ever came from my pen. I have too little hatred in m... ...at, ridi- culed, made table-talk, and complimented on my enterprise by the satirical marquis, had such unconquerable power over me, that, though asham... ...ion or greater civility, than he constantly paid me (not- withstanding his satirical sallies), especially after my success, which, as he was unacquain... ...zvous for the next day, which she postponed for three days, adding, with a satirical smile, that I must needs be in want of repose. I was very ill at ...

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...Excerpt: Here, madame, is one of those books which come into the mind, whence no one knows, giving pleasure to the author before he can foresee what reception the public, our great present judge, will accord to it. Feeling almost certain of your sympathy in my ple...

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...t Wormeley Dedication To Constance-Victoire. Here, madame, is one of those books which come into the mind, whence no one knows, giving pleasure to the... ...rtain M. Metivier, jr., wholesale dealer in pa- per; that on the left to a bookseller named Barbet. The of- fices of each were above the warerooms; th... ...okseller named Barbet. The of- fices of each were above the warerooms; the bookseller occu- pying the first storey, and the paper-dealer the second st... ...ular dealer, and Barbet, much more of a money lender and discounter than a bookseller, kept these vast warerooms for the purpose of stor- ing,—one, hi... ...s stacks of paper, bought of needy manufactur- ers, the other, editions of books given as security for loans. The shark of bookselling and the pike of... ...nd la Peyrade exchanged now and then a smile which betrayed their mutually satirical but repressed thoughts. La Peyrade, seated beside Flavie, whisper... ... who ap- peared in a cravat which alone was enough to create a stir in the satirical circle in which he was about to produce himself. The publisher, o...

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... Areopagitica by JOHN MILTON 1644 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Milton Table of Contents .... ...end not in either of these particulars. But that other clause of Licensing Books, which we thought had died with his brother quadragesimal and mat... ...to own; next what is to be thought in general of reading, whatever sort the books be; and that this Order avails nothing to the suppressing of scan... ...ils nothing to the suppressing of scan- dalous, seditious, and libellous books, which were mainly intended to be suppressed. Last, that it will be... ... concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigi- lant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, impr... ...ugh himself disputes against that opinion in his own writings. Nor was the satirical sharpness or naked plainness of Lucilius, or Catullus, or F...

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... He is the friend of the young especially. Have we not read, all the story-books that his wonderful pencil has illustrated? Did we not forego tarts, i... ... the pump, which is as graceful and elegant as a drawing of Stothard. Dull books about children George Cruikshank makes bright with illustrations—ther... ...s little, enor- mous parson of parsons. Being on the subject of children’s books, how shall we enough praise the delightful German nursery-tales, and ... ...n’s boots,” which did not certainly fit the gouty son of Saint Louis. Such satirical hits as these, however, must not be considered as political, or a... ...o are not too fat to kneel! what a flustering and flapping of gilt prayer- books; and what a pious whirring of bible leaves one hears all over the chu... ..., and other old English scenes, he depicts with evident enthusiasm. Famous books in their day were Cruikshank’s “John Gilpin” and “Epping Hunt;” for t... ...inks in his face, and seems to say, O Bull, all this is froth, and a cruel satirical picture of a certain rustic who had a goose that laid certain gol...

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...er dinner.” “He drank sparingly,” said Mr. Fellingham. “I am sure you were satirical last night,” Annette said re- proachfully. “On the contrary, I to... ...has had the best instruction money could procure; and if she says you were satirical, you may depend on it you were.” “Oh, in that case, of course!” M... ...ld help it?” He thought himself warranted in giving the rein to his wicked satirical spirit, and talked lightly of the accidental character of the let... ...s nature of her father in his friendships, and his indisposition to hear a satirical remark upon his old schoolmate, the moment he understood it to be... ...reet as to roar aloud, not so very cordially. Annette thought him unkindly satirical; and his thoughts of her reduced her to the condition of a common... ...ecting from above the heads of prophets in the illustrations to cheap holy books—to deal with willing workers that have no hearts. Before the applicat...

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...e sovereign; that there were bills of much longer standing than his on the books, and there, no doubt, they would remain, as part of the his- tory of ... ...nting, on the Middle Ages or the Renaissance; pro- nounced at haphazard on books new or old, and could ex- pose the defects of a work with a cruelly g... ...conspicuous in her 13 Balzac dress, her furniture, and her carriages. The satirical spirit in which her brothers and sisters sometimes received the c... ...d in giving a look of harmony to the files of bills, the letter-boxes, the books and furniture of this sanctum, where the interests of the royal demes... ...rs, and sharpened her pencils for the scenes she proposed to sketch in her satirical album. Sun- day could not come soon enough to satisfy her impatie... ...asmodic. She was more deeply hurt by their unspoken compassion than by any satirical com- ments for which she might have revenged herself. She ex- hau...

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...e had told them that I worked in black and white, for magazines, for story-books, for sketches of contemporary life, and consequently had fre- quent e... ...EM into my share of the enterprise. They knew I was to do the first of the books, “Rutland Ramsay,” but I had to make clear to them that my participat... ...t—they fit in the pictures.” “I’m afraid I should do better for the modern books. I would come as you like,” said Mrs. Monarch. “She has got a lot of ... ...past ages—that it was a case in which everything would be contemporary and satirical and, presumably, genteel. If I could work them into it their futu... ... of what had been looked for, I saw at this rate I shouldn’t get the other books to do. I hurled myself in despair upon Miss Churm, I put her through ... ... of money to go away; and I never saw them again. I obtained the remaining books, but my friend Hawley repeats that Major and Mrs. Monarch did me a pe...

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...willingly,” replied the Baron, “but we live with human beings and not with books. There, dear Nais! I see how it is, there is nothing between you yet,... ...uture friend was on the staff of a small newspa- per, and wrote reviews of books and dramatic criticism of pieces played at the Ambigu-Comique, the Ga... ...du Commerce to see the newspapers at Blosse’s reading-room, as well as new books and magazines and poetry, so as to keep himself in- formed of the mov... ...e made his way to the Quai des Augustins, and went along, looking into the booksellers’ windows on one side and into the Seine on the other, his good ... ...l- ancholy, to be seen through the window panes, or in the doorways of the booksellers’ establishments, he espied a house where the shopmen were busy ... ...n. Then, to prove your case, draw a comparison between Rabener, the German satirical moralist, and La Bruyere. Nothing gives a critic such an air 190... ...f pos- sessing a fair mistress, and the certainty of success, he had grown satirical and adorably impertinent of late. “Yes, my friend; do you think I... ...rt.” “Do you really stick to your written opinions?” asked V ernou, with a satirical expression. “Why, we are retailers of phrases; that is how we mak... ... spirit of contradiction, new charms met beneath his pen. He was witty and satirical, he rose to yet new views of sentiment, of ideas and imagery in l...

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...t have been made on any other scheme. Whereby, at least, our nautical Log- books can be better kept; and water-transport of all kinds has grown more c... ...cy: besides, in his sly way, he had ever some quaint turn, not without its satirical edge, wherewith to divert such intrusions, and deter you from the... ...r a space, and then take himself away. It was a strange apartment; full of books and tattered papers, and miscellaneous shreds of all conceivable sub-... ...eds of all conceivable sub- stances, “united in a common element of dust.” Books lay on tables, and below tables; here fluttered a sheet of manuscript... ...esitate to believe. To no purpose have I searched through all the Herald’s Books, in and without the German Empire, and through all manner of Subscrib... ...n to us. The Professor, in whom truly we more and more dis- cern a certain satirical turn, and deep under-currents of roguish whim, for the present st... ...ative of that district might feel called to afford explanation. Nay, since Books, like invisible scouts, permeate the whole habitable globe, and Timbu... ...nfirmed almost into certainty by the more and more discernible humoristico-satirical tendency of Teufelsdrockh, in whom underground humors and intrica...

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...st was real once. Whereas, Young Jackson!—Not to mention its being a sadly satirical misnomer for Old Jackson.” He took up his hat and walked out, jus... ...g trip— so that I know all about that! He collects chance newspa- pers and books—so that I have plenty to read! He tells me about the sick people who ... ...hat a quantity he does see and make out.” “As to collecting newspapers and books, my dear,” said Lamps, “it’s clear I can have no merit in that, becau... ...able friend, if he will allow me to call him so,—him as belongs to Smith’s bookstall. Why, he no more dares to be up to our Refreshmenting games than ...

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...ter in his hand. “I’m very glad to see you; I hope you’re very well. You had better come in here; I think it’s cooler,” and he led the way into anothe... ...ittle and blushing. “I am afraid you’ll think I am not very intellectual.” “Reading Mrs. Gore is no proof of intellect. But I like reading everything ... ... you people, and that you amuse yourselves immensely. It is very good of you to let 55 Henry James Bessie and me come and sit and look at you. I supp... ...moment. “Shall I tell you something?” he asked. “A young man in my position, as you call it—” “I didn’t invent the term,” interposed Bessie Alden. “I ...

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...s are indeed a formidable public, for they ought not to be allowed to read books less pure than the purity of their souls; they are forbidden certain ... ...s uncle with the young girl called Ursula on his arm, both carrying prayer-books and just entering the church. The old man took off his hat in the por... ...d he used it to gratify the bitterness of his life-long envy. He wrote the satirical couplets sung during the carni- val, organized charivaris, and wa... ...er thing for him to say to you is, ‘Don’t be worried.’” As Goupil spoke, a satirical smile overspread his face, and gave such meaning to his words tha... ...ed, found out, through the indiscretion of a young man sent to arrange the books, that the doctor was taking care of a little orphan named Ursula. The... ...mulation of which swelled his library. The newspapers, encyclopaedias, and books were an attraction to a retired captain of the Royal-Swedish regiment... ...he needed to know of arithmetic. The doctor’s library afforded a choice of books which could be read by a child for amusement as well as instruction. ...

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.... Formerly book-keeper at the Treasury, when that estab- lishment kept its books by double entry, the Sieur Saillard was compensated for the loss of t... ...bbe Gaudron, vicar of Saint-Paul’s and the family director, called profane books. This discipline had borne fruit. Forced to employ her feelings on so... ...o a business carried on by others, and spend their evenings in keeping the books of their associates. Many clerks are married to milliners, licensed t... ...d advertisements. Du Bruel was a plodder; at the office he read the newest books, extracted their wit, and laid it by for use in his dialogues. He was... ... belongs to the government he is no longer master of himself.” He compiled books of questions and answers on various studies for the use of young ladi... ... When Rabourdin left the house at eight o’clock, the por- ter gave him the satirical cards suggested by Bixiou. Never- theless, he went to the ministr... ...sieur,” said Rabourdin at last, with a man- ner that was half-solemn, half-satirical. Sebastien meanwhile had made up a package of papers and letters ... ..., with the motto “En Lupus in Historia,” was able to surmount these rather satirical arms with a count’s coronet. Towards the close of the year 1830 M...

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...al inter- est in seeing men whose names had been long before the public in books and periodical journals. The first measure of the Seceders was to for... ...sure to rise up more or less to view, just as fans or the colored edges of books with us are made to exhibit landscapes, &c. capable of great varietie... ...wittiest jest perishes—the most pointed is found blunt. So, with regard to books, should the reader on whom we build prove a sandy and treacherous fou... ...upon ourselves for our sins, belongs to that class of people who listen to books in the ratio of their much speak- ing—find no eloquence in 32mo., and... ... ously incensed with a certain man, by trade an author and manufacturer of books wholesale and retail, for introducing Milton’s name into a certain in... ...elter of this carelessness, the most deep-seated vices of Pope’s moral and satirical sketches have escaped detection, or at least have escaped exposur... ..., most eminently it is that the falseness and hypocrisy which besieged his satirical career have made themselves manifest; and the dilemma for any wor...

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... told Miss Howe. At other times Hoopdriver might have further resented the satirical efforts of the apprentice, but his mind was too full of the proje... ...than strong, sharp and resolute rather than clever (cp., as the scientific books say, p. 2). In- variably this person possessed an iron will. The stor... ...rt of it was decorated with framed Oddfellows’ certificates and giltbacked books and portraits, and kettle-holders, and all kinds of beautiful things ... ... her, among other things. He knows Passion ought to awaken, from the text- books he has studied. He knows she admires his genius, but he is unaware th... ...-haired little figure was the woman that people who knew her only from her books, called bold, prurient even! Simply because she was great-hearted—int... ...opment. “I want to write, you see,” said the Young Lady in Grey, “to write Books and alter things. T o do Good. I want to lead a Free Life and Own mys...

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...y restless, wasting my energies in the futile beginning of ill-con- ceived books. One does not settle down very readily at two and forty to a new way ... ...content- ment to those wider dreams. I like to think of him so, with brown books before him lit by the light of candles in silver candlesticks, or hea... ... trunks and boxes. There are cupboards on either side of the fireplace and bookshelves with books above them, and on the wall and rather tattered is a... ...ook in my boy- hood except those of Jules Verne. But my father used to get books for himself and me from the Bromstead Institute, Fenimore Cooper and ... ...s New T estament with a map of Palestine, and a variety of other informing books bought at sales. There was a Sowerby’s Botany also, with thousands of... ...te. We had indeed figured our project modestly as a manuscript magazine of satirical, liberal and brilliant literature by which in some rather inex- p... ...and he ground at an organ bear- ing a card which told in weak and bitterly satirical phrasing that he had been scalded by the hot water from the tuyer... ...d, with memories of a carelessly read pamphlet in my mind, and without any satirical intention, “I suppose you must use lead in your glazes?” Whereupo...